Inquisition vs False - What's the difference?
inquisition | false |
an investigation or inquiry into the truth of some matter
* Latimer
* Shakespeare
an inquest
a questioning
The finding of a jury, especially such a finding under a writ of inquiry.
* Blackstone
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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, title= Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a proper noun inquisition
is (historical) a tribunal of the roman catholic church set up to investigate and suppress heresy.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.inquisition
English
Noun
(en noun)- as I could learn through earnest inquisition
- Let not search and inquisition quail / To bring again these foolish runaways.
- The justices in eyre had it formerly in charge to make inquisition concerning them by a jury of the county.
- (Bouvier)
Derived terms
* inquisition post mortemfalse
English
Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}